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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Ubay, Bohol |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Crude letterpress-printed emergency note on plain paper, with the denomination numeral '50' printed vertically at left. The central text block carries the promise-to-pay obligation in English, with the issuing authority and series date 'Series 1943' at foot. Two handwritten signatures appear below the text, with the title 'Chairman' and 'Member' inscribed between them. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a bold, hand-stamped or crudely block-printed '50¢' numeral centred on the note. A faint grid of ruled lines covers the entire surface, and scattered handwritten ink notations appear at the margins, likely validator or control marks. |
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Philippine municipal emergency currency from the Japanese occupation period. When the Japanese military administration flooded the Philippines with "Mickey Mouse money" — the derisive local nickname for occupation peso notes — many municipalities in the Visayas issued their own guerrilla or emergency scrip to maintain local commerce independent of the occupier's currency.
Ubay, a coastal municipality on Bohol's northeastern shore, was among the smaller issuers. These municipal notes were produced with whatever materials were at hand, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and printing method seen across surviving examples from this series.